Złotoryja poviat - poviat in Poland, in Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, created in 1999 as part of an administrative reform. His seat is Złotoryja.
An administrative division
Coat of arms of the Złotoryja poviat
The poviat consists of:
urban communes: Wojcieszów, Złotoryja urban-rural communes: Świerzawa rural communes: Pielgrzymka, Zagrodno, Złotoryja towns: Wojcieszów, Złotoryja, Świerzawa
The poviat borders the following poviats: Legnica, Jawor, Jelenia Góra, Lwówek and Bolesławiec.
Worth seeing
in Złotoryja
Monuments Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Church of St. Jadwiga, view from the south-west
According to the register of the National Heritage Institute, the list of monuments includes [14]:
Starówka (Old Town) auxiliary church. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from 1230, 16th-20th centuries. st. Nicholas from the 14th – 19th centuries; situated on a hill where a settlement of gold miners was established at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries. It is decorated with a magnificent 14th-century portal with intricate floral decorations. On the outer facades, interesting epitaphs from the early modern times have been preserved, the Franciscan monastery complex from the 15th-19th centuries: a church, now a parish. pw. st. Jadwiga, the monastery is the work of the Franciscan order, brought by St. Jadwiga in the first half of the thirteenth century. The temple after the eighteenth-century reconstruction, with a baroque interior and façade. Right next to the church there is a votive pole chapel from the end of the 15th century and the 18th-century statue of St. John of Nepomuk, a complex of mausoleums at the municipal cemetery, ul. Cmentarna 10, from the 18th-20th centuries: mausoleums of the Guenther, Langner and Jaekel families; Eisler, Gottschling, Haerold, Schmaller, Schoffer; Hoeher and Ehrlich; Mende, Gottschling; Schafer and Hibner; Steinbrecher, Weber, Hein, Schubert, Kuehn remains of defensive walls, from the 14th century, 16th century Upper Gate, called The Blacksmith's Tower, from the 14th century, the 16th century, its gothic helmet was destroyed during the fights for the city during the Napoleonic Wars. To this day, fragments of the medieval fortifications of the katownia, ul. Zaułek, houses from the 18th century, ul. Konopnicka 15 (d. 27), 19 (d. 30); 21 and 21a (d. 20, 20a), from 1785 and 1965, 24 (d. 28) house, ul. Mickiewicza 30, from the 17th century, 19th century house, ul. Piłsudskiego 24, from the 18th century, at the end of the 19th century, house, Rynek 2, from the 16th century, at the end of the 19th century, inn, currently hotel, Rynek 5, from 1623, 17th century, 19th century houses, Rynek 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, from the 16th century, 17th century, 1730 r., 18th century, 19th century house, ul. Szkolna 2, from the 16th century, 18th century houses, pl. Niepodległości 3, 4, 5, from 1738, at the end of the 19th century, a mill with a residential part, ul. Kolejowa 6/8, from the middle of 17th century, end of the 19th century water supply tower, from the first half of the 19th century Eighteenth century